We must be taught not to hate, not the reverse.

[tmonster]

ive been doing that with my little girl
my house is full of "black" fine arts paintings, sculptures.

we tell her that she is beautiful.

those white blue eyed blonde haired princesses/ girls arent the only ones who go out on so called adventures

and most importantly she will NOT i repeat NOT get any blue/ brown eyed white dolls

this should not need be commendable behavior but given the pervasiveness of the white supremacist psychic field, it must be

 

[MostReal]

so whats your view of being born in sin? i like reading peoples opinions on that.

your view on that was correct but it wasn't my reason for there being flaws in the study

 

[KwamePiesie]

@DPresidential dapped/repped up!!


ive got a 3 year old girl and newborn son

we have to let them know that no one is better than them..

BEAUTIFUL!!

 

[KwamePiesie]

this should not need be commendable behavior but given the pervasiveness of the white supremacist psychic field, it must be

the struggle is real

thats all i have to say

in stead of going with the status quo and accept all these white imagery
i am taking a left and WILL let them know they are part of a RICH history

 

[DPresidential]

@KwamePiesie

Breh,

I think heavily on these topics every day nowadays, and not just because I have children. I truly was enlightened recently.

I'm a Bronx born, Brooklyn raised Attorney specializing in Criminal Law, so in my employment I see this systematic destruction. Even while in Law School, because I grew up in 90's Fort Greene, Brooklyn, I knew the lay of the land, I knew that although I wasn't a thug or wanted to hurt anyone, there was a certain stoic demeanor I needed to maintain when walking through the hood. That was what we learned.

Think about that, even when I was in law school, when I went back, I went right back into "Grill a nikka" mode!

Because I live in Jamaica Queens now, I take the train every day to work Downtown Brooklyn, I see these young men and women. I see the influences on them, and us, everything from the negative aspects of glamorizing violence in our media to youtube videos of children twerking to worldstar videos of black children brutally beating up each other. Then I see the state the Black communities are in, it's sad and I don't believe in conspiracy theories but honestly, if there was a design by some oppressor...would it have been able to be more efficient than it is now?

SO I jacked myself out of that way of thinking and I realized something profound. I realized that when I'm in the hood, I truly was never scared of any man, and I think most young black men feel the same. But what I realized that they haven't yet... is that we were afraid of something. That something was the "Fear of being non-threatening". Essentially everything tells us that to be a black man...is to be a threat. To be a black man...is to be no nonsense. TO be a black man... is to NOT be empathetic of the person right next to you.

Immediately upon being enlightened by that, all adrenaline and side eye tactics left from my behavior. I feel happier breh, happier around my own people. I'm just trying to work on the blueprint of getting that message across this Country.

And a disclaimer, I am a big fan of hiphop, I honestly believe it is THE most intelligent form of music. No other music is as influential and no other music has artists that can manipulate words and ride a beat like hip hop artists can at their peak. But it's because of that power that I know it has, is why I criticize it so much. If we had the same beats, with the same lyrical ability but gloated about unity, gloated about real balling(real estate, owning assets & mutual funds)...

Breh... This Country DNA would change.

 

[KwamePiesie]

@DPresidential

I wish we could build mano a mano my bredren..

Your story is truly universal.

Im born and raised in The Netherlands, Rotterdam. My Cultural background is African-Surinames.
All my life i have walked the walk and talked the talk of the urban city. On one side i coud hang on the corner with the homies and on the other i could hang with the students at the university. Im sure we've experienced the same things.
And i say that beacuse i truly believe the struggle, OUR STRUGGLE, is universal.

Its just.. we're so caught up in our own little cubicle with all our debts, marrital problems etc etc.. we dont see that, as a collective we can learn form each others experiences.

Im babbling bredren.. im all over the place

what im saying is this

Our struggle is universal and as A PEOPLE we could truly benefit from forming a global " grassroots" union.

 

[DPresidential]

@KwamePiesie

Slowly but surely...I'm building breh. The good & bad at the same time is... Once you care for a group of people, you're all in. So now, I would feel like I'm betraying these people who don't even know me yet, if I were to ever now walk away and decided not to try to improve it.

to you and your family.

 

[tmonster]

the struggle is real

thats all i have to say

in stead of going with the status quo and accept all these white imagery
i am taking a left and WILL let them know they are part of a RICH history

really real
but in that struggle there are several business, or rather community building communion, opportunities

 

[Brown_Pride]

Hes talking about the belief that sins of the parents fall on the children, so by birth we are destined to be a certain away unless "we find jesus"

As a christian I believe we're born into sin...
Looking at things from a secular view I still think we're inherently SELFISH. We're coded with a will to survive and unfortunately I'm gonna go ahead and say that 100% of our motives are geared towards that. Even our cooperation in a society is hinged upon the idea that there's power and safety in numbers. It's instinctual for a child to want more, as a by product this sometimes means someone else has less. IMHO you do have to be taught to be generous, be this through religion or simply the idea that you need to go along to get along humans need to be taught not to be savages.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Earth Wind and Fire once said * a child is born with a heart of gold, the ways of the world make a heart turn cold*

and you know what.

I believe them

 

[dax]

As a christian I believe we're born into sin...
Looking at things from a non secular view I still think we're inherently SELFISH. We're coded with a will to survive and unfortunately I'm gonna go ahead and say that 100% of our motives are geared towards that. Even our cooperation in a society is hinged upon the idea that there's power and safety in numbers. It's instinctual for a child to want more, as a by product this sometimes means someone else has less. IMHO you do have to be taught to be generous, be this through religion or simply the idea that you need to go along to get along humans need to be taught not to be savages.

Now this is interesting. This might be some proof there is an anthropomorphic god out there.

 

[same damn lo sweater]

kurt cobain wrote about this in his suicide letter. he couldn't stand how his newborn kid inherently trusted people while he was a pessimistic a$$hole

 

[DPresidential]

kurt cobain wrote about this in his suicide letter. he couldn't stand how his newborn kid inherently trusted people while he was a pessimistic @sshole

Wow. It's always so deep getting a glimpse into the mind of a person ready to end their life.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

wrong thread

 

[tru_m.a.c]

As a christian I believe we're born into sin...
Looking at things from a non secular view I still think we're inherently SELFISH. We're coded with a will to survive and unfortunately I'm gonna go ahead and say that 100% of our motives are geared towards that. Even our cooperation in a society is hinged upon the idea that there's power and safety in numbers. It's instinctual for a child to want more, as a by product this sometimes means someone else has less. IMHO you do have to be taught to be generous, be this through religion or simply the idea that you need to go along to get along humans need to be taught not to be savages.

so let me use your example of a kid being selfish

is this behavior unique to humans alone? how is being selfish a "sin" if the behaviors that define being "selfish" are natural actions displayed by all organisms on this planet?

100% of our motives are geared toward survival? really? when you woke up today, everything you did was geared toward your survival? interesting. I think it's even more interesting you believe that 7 billion humans have the same concept of survival.